WATERTOWN — This year has been an exceptional one for Armenian Museum of America. After two intriguing exhibitions devoted to the art of Varujan Boghosian and then Serj Tankian, it[...]
YEREVAN — Back in the Soviet era, intellectuals and artists belonged to various “creative” associations or unions through which the state used to support and control their activities. These included[...]
KAPAN, Armenia — The Consulate General of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Kapan, the capital of Armenia’s southern-most province of Syunik, celebrated its third anniversary with an evening event[...]
BOSTON — The Museum of Fine Arts (MFA) in Boston is among the top 20 largest art museums in the world and since this summer, it has a new director,[...]
WATERTOWN — Peter Balakian continues to write poetry in a complex modernist and post-modernist tradition. He gives his take on life in today’s complicated world, both sophisticated and earthy, while[...]
WATERTOWN — Armine Helena Afeyan is the chief executive officer of the Aurora Humanitarian Initiative (AHI), an organization founded in 2015 to express the gratitude of Armenians who survived a[...]
LEXINGTON, Mass. — Isabel Bayrakdarian, possessor of an exquisite soprano voice, performed a program called “Ancestral Songs, Prayers and Lullabies” at Lexington’s Scottish Rite Museum and Library on November 15.[...]
WATERTOWN — Armenian-American musician Daniel “Danny” Peter Bedrosian has just published a second book on George Clinton’s Parliament-Funkadelic (P-Funk) collective, a group which is one of the standard bearers of[...]
YEREVAN — Operation Nemesis, the effort to assassinate the organizers of the Armenian Genocide, continues to attract attention and periodically new books are published about it. Birgit Hofler-Bettschart is the[...]
YEREVAN — Anastas Alekseevich Mikoyan, the grandson of the Soviet Armenian politician Anastas Ivanovich (Hovhannesi) Mikoyan (1895-1978), goes by the moniker Stas Namin. Not only is he one of the[...]
WATERTOWN — The Tekeyan Cultural Association (TCA) Mher Megerdchian Theatrical Group of New Jersey presented a Western Armenian dinner theater version of Anton Chekhov’s “The Marriage Proposal” in Watertown, on[...]
